About Me

My four decade publishing career has been a continuous post-graduate education. This blog is intended as an on going first hand account, eclectic and opinionated in nature, on a wide range of interests, from business and politics to music, literature and theater, with some family history along the way.

Thursday, January 17, 2013

You Call That a Gun?

Florida airwaves are chock full of reports of surging gun
sales and crowded local shooting ranges before the sword of Damocles (Obama)
comes swiftly down.Interestingly, or tellingly,
it is the sales of the AK47 type of military weapons that are selling most briskly
and at record prices, soldier citizens plunking down $1,000 or more for their
favorite assault weapon.Apparently,
their rationalization for needing a military weapon is, well, for their
inevitable confrontation with the US Military.These particular stalwart supporters of the Constitution (a.k.a. conspiracists)
"know" of clandestine government plans to send troops door-to-door to confiscate
their booty.The problem with that is if
they are harboring AK47s, perhaps the military might come knocking on their
doors with a tank?Now that's a gun!

In
a more serious vein, it's about time after all the empty talk that the Second Amendment to the United States
Constitution be brought into the 21st century.The framers of the Constitution
could never have envisioned what now constitutes the word "arms."